The Digital Tree Monument (soon at https://digitaalbomenmonument.wordpress.com/ ) is an art project by Nicole Spit to digitize trees from the Castricum area and place them in a virtual dream world. Still on show, extended until Februari the 1th ! At Huize Koningsbosch, Heereweg 84, Castricum.
In my artproject ‘Digital Tree Monument’ I selected eight trees in Castricum, which all represent a specific tree threat. Like nutrient-poor soil. urbanization, tree diseases, drought, salinazation. Some, like the old chestnut tree at Huize Koningsbosch or the old Willow at the ‘Tuin van Kapitein Rommel’ have already been felled and live on in the digital world.
We can restore stone monuments, but unfortunately not old monumental trees. How could we preserve them, with their specific phenotypic properties? Is a digital arboretum in a metaverse perhaps an alternative?
